title: End-to-end anastomosis between two vessels of different size.
abstract: A technique enabling end-to-end anastomosis between two vessels of different size is described. This method reduces the larger vessel to a truncated cone by excision of a triangle the base of which corresponds to a part of its circumference. By this method, the diameters are easily adapted to one another and the end-to-end anastomosis remains centred.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Hôpital Communal, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Merlini
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*